Wind-shield for vehicles.



v R. NBTTERF WIND SHIELD FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION I'ILED' MAR. 1 91909. 1,097,459. Patented May 19, 1914.

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WIND SHIELD FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1909.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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WIND-SHIELD FOR VEHICLES}.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ma 19, 191 1.

Application filed March 19, 1909. Serial No. 484,352.

To all 1072011111? may concern Be it known that I, ltirnniii. Nn'r'rnn,a citizen of France, residing in the city of blew York, borough oflllanhattan, county I and State of New York, have invented cerdriversseat of automobiles or other vehicles to more or less protect thoseriding therein from the effects of quickly passing through the air,against the wind or in storms and it relates more particularly to thatclass of wind shields having a. movable portion or portions adapted tobe moved more or less out of the protecting position that such shieldsusually occupy in use.

The object of my invention is to provide simple, cheap and desirablemeans for securi mg the movable portion or portions of the shield in thedesired positions and releasing the same for moving such portion orportions out of one desired position to another.

The invention consists in the combination of parts or deviceshereinafter set forth and particularly pointed out in the claimshereunto annexed and forming a part of this specification.

Like letters of reference wherever they occur indicate correspondingparts in the several figures of the drawings.

Figure 1 illustrates in side elevation a portion of the body of anautomobile having one embodiment of my invention combined therewith, thewind shield being shown in the protecting position; Fig. 2 shows thewind shield. seen in Fig. 1 in rear elevation or as seen when one isseated in the automobile, such shield being partly broken away as shown;Fig. 8 illustrates partly in section and partly in side elevation theconstruction seen in Figs. 1 and 2, portions being broken away in orderto show the parts on an enlarged scale from what they are seen in Fig.1; Fig. 4t illustrates in section portions of the connection between thebracing or holding means and the movable portion of the wind shield seenin Fig. 3; Fig. 5 shows a modified form of connection between theoperating handles and the clamping or locking and releasing means, theparts being shown in side elevation. Fig. 6 shows in section theconnection of this modified means with the movable portion of the windshield seen in Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 shows partly in elevation and partlyin section portions of this same connection with the movable portion ofthe wind shield.

In Figs. 1 to l, inclusive, A. represents that portion of theautomobile, car or can riage to which the wind shield therein shown isattached and B represents that portion to which the means for bracing orholding the movable portion of the shield in position is attached.

C represents the movable portion of the shield, c the frame thereofwhich holds the glass D. Any desirable means may be em ployed forhinging or connecting the movable part of the wind shield to theimmovable part thereof or to the car or vehicle. its here shown themovable portion of the wind shield is connected to the car or vehicle bymeans of a pivotal connection formed of two members, one of which a isattached to the immovable portion A of the car and the, other member (Zis attached to the lower por' tion of the frame 0 of the movable portionof the shield, as is more particularly seen in Figs. 2 and 3 of thedrawings.

In a wind shield of the form herein described it is desirable that themovable por tion thereof be positively held in the desired position bymeans adapted to brace and hold such part against displacement. Asherein shown I have illustrated bracing or holding means formed in twoparts, one part preferably moving telescopically in the other part in anendwise direction, there being preferably two of such bracing or holdingmeans, one arranged at one side of the car or carriage and the other atthe opposite side thereof. Any desired form of bracing or holding meansmay be employed so long as such means are adapted to hold or brace themovable part of the shield in the desired position and be released topermit such portion to be moved from one desired position to another.The bracing or holding means as here shown are designated as E and arecomposed of two sections, 6 and e, the section a being telescopicallymovable interiorly of the other section 6, as is more particularly seenin Fig. 3 of the drawings.

The telescopic section 6 at each side of the vehicle is preferablyconnected therewith by a form of universal joint, composed, as shown, ora rounded head E working in semicircular recesses in blocks F, F securedin the lower part of such section. The head F is attached to the part Bof the car or carriage so that the telescopic section 6 may have amovement relatively to the car or carriage in different directions,there be ing one of these universal joint connections for each bracingor holding means at each opposite side of the car. The telescopicsections 6 are preferably pivotally connected to the movable portion ofthe shield by brackets G attached to the frame 0 of the shield, eachbracket carrying a pivot g movable therein. Each of these pivots g isattached to a head piece G secured to the upper end of the telescopicsection 6 so that as the movable portion of the wind shield is movedfrom one desired position to another the pivots 9 turn in the bracketsG, thus permitting the head pieces G and the telescopic sections a tomove relatively to the sections 6 in an endwise direction relatively tothe sections 6 to the extent necessary for the movable portion of theshield to reach the desired position, the pivots g turning in thebrackets G as this endwise movement takes place. These head pieces Grcarry nuts, each of which is free to partially rotate in its respectivehead piece, the axial center of the nut being that of the axial centerof the telescopic section 6. Each of these nuts H is provided with screwthreads adapted to receive screw threads formed upon a rod 72,, which isarranged on the interior of each of the telescopic sections 6, as isclearly seen in Figs. 3 and at. Each nut H is so mounted upon the screwthreads of its respective rod h that it can take on a partial rotationwithout movement in an endwise direction relatively to its respectivehead piece G. Each rod 72 is prevented from n'ioving in a rotativedirection by a pin it attached thereto and passing through a slot 7&2 inits respective telescopic section 6', as seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings.As a result of the partial rotative movement of each nut H and thenonrotative movement of its respective rod it, such rod is given aslight endwise movement accordingly as the nut H is rotated. Each red Itextends downward through the interior of its telescopic section 6 and atits lower end receives a conical part 1. Each conical part I is fixedlysecured to its rod 7L and is tapered to enter the taoered portion of thelower end of its telescopic section 6. The tapered portion 6 of eachtelescopic section 6 is split into different parts so that each is freeto have a limited movement toward and away from the interior surface ofits respective telescopic section 6. The conical portion I and the splittapered portions of each of the telescopic sections 6 form holding orclamping means by which the two sections of each of such holding orbracing means are locked and held in fixed relation to one another in anendwise direction and are released from their holding or lookingengagement with one another. This locking and releasing of thetelescopic sections by such clamping or holding means is accom plishedby the endwise movement of the conical part I relatively to the taperedsplit portion 6 of each of the telescopic sections 0. The locking of thesections together takes place upon the conical part I being forced intothe tapered split portion 6 of each of the sections 0 and the releasingor unlocking of such telescopic sections is caused by the movement ofthe same parts relatively to sections a in the opposite direction. Themovement of the conical parts I is caused to take place by the endwisemovement of the rods h to which such conical parts are attached and thismovement of the rods 71- is accomplished by the partial rotation, eitherin one direction or the other, of the nuts H in the head pieces G of thetelescopic sections 6.

The partial rotation of the nuts H is caused to take place by pitmanrods J pivotally connected to the nuts and with levers K, the latterconnection being by ball and socket joints j, as seen in Fig. 3. Eachlever K is preferably pivotally attached to a bracket L fixedly securedto the movable portion of the wind shield at a point removed from thenuts H and near the pivotal connection a, (Z. The free ends of theselevers K form handles by which such levers may be operated to move upontheir fulcrums or pivots and cause the pitmen J to give rotativemovement to the nuts H. Handles M are preferably fixedly secured to thebrackets L so that when such handles are grasped, the movable portion ofthe shield, being free to move, such portion is moved, through means ofthe handles, M, from one desired position to another and held in suchposition until the telescopic sections are locked together by the actionof the nuts H on the rods it to brace and hold the parts againstmovement relatively one to another.

As seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings the telescopic sections 6 and e, thelocking and releasing means and the operating means are duplicates ofeach other at each side of the car or vehicle and the handles, as K, areconnected together being both fixedly attached to a shaft K mounted inbearings on the frame of the movable portion of the shield so that suchshaft can partially rotate therein. By thus connecting the levers orhandles K together by the shaft K whenever the shaft is turned in itsbearings both handles are correspondingly turned and consequently it isonly necessary to grasp one of the handles 1: in order to ope ate thelocle ing and releasing means on both sides of the vehicle. Either oneof the handles K being operated causes both locking and releasing meansto be simultaneously operated either to lock the telescopic sectionstogether or to rel iaso them from the holding action of the lockingmeans.

To change the position (it the movabl i por tion of the wind shield thedriver or operator grasps the handle portion of either lever, as K,moving it toward its respective handle lii thereby giving the nuts it apartial rotation sulhcient to force the rods 7t downward in thetelescopic sections a moving the conicalf parts I relatively to thesplit portions 0 of such sections, thereby releasing or unlocking thesections a from the sections 6, then grasping the handle M, while stillretaining the lever K in his grasp, the opera tor moves the movableportion of the shield into the position desired, holding it there andmoving the lever K away from. its handle M thereby rotating the nuts Hin the opposite direction and again locking the respective sectionstogether.

instead of giving the nuts ll, seen in pre ceding figures, rotativemovement by the means there shown other means may be employed if desiredas, for instance, sections oi gears, as seen in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 oi thedraw ings. In the embodiment shown in these 5 to 7, inclusive, each ofthe nuts H, which are to be partially rotated to move the rods 7 endwisein the telescopic sections 0, for locking the two sections together andunlocking the same, is provided with a section or part of a gear N whichmeshes with a sectional gear N mounted in a portion of the bracket GEach sectional gear N is provided with an arm N by which it may berotated in the bracket G and cause its nut H in its head piece G fixedlyattached to its telescopic section a to correspondingly rotate and moveits rod h in an endwise direction in the respective telescopic sections0'. Each arm N of the sectional gears N is at its free end connectedwith a pitman rod J which in turn is pivotally connected with a lever Kmounted on the shaft K which is adapted to turn in bearings in thebrackets L fixedly attached to the movable portion of the shield in themanner described in connection with the preceding ures of the drawings.By thus connecting the levers K with the arms N of the sectional gears lthe sectional gears ll formed on the nuts H cause an endwise movement ofboth of the rods h to lock and unlock the telescopic sections upon themovement 01' either it the handles K. The operation of locking andunlocking the telescopic sections is the same when the sectional gearsare used, as shown in Figs. to 7, as is the operation of the nuts 11seen in Figs. 1 to i, in elusive, of the drawings.

What is herein shown and described will naturally suggest to thoseskilled in the art' other specific forms, constructions and arrangementsof parts than. what is herein seen which, while varying in form ordetail, will. be combined together in substantially the manner hereinset forth for accomplishing essentially the same work as isacconuylished by the combinations herein describ d and because Of this Ido not desire to limit my self to the specific terms, constructions andarrangements oi. parts herein set forth, but desire to include allterms, constructions and arrangements that are within the spirit orprinciple oi my invention.

\l hat I claim as new is i. In a wind shield, the combination of amovable shield. portion, holding or bracing means comprising twoeoacting relatively adjustable members pivoted respectively to themovable portion of the shield and to the body to which the shield isapplied, locking means adapted to hold said members in any adjustedposition, and operating means connected to the locking means andincluding coacting screw threaded po-wei.'-tr:msn1itting members, an.operating lever, said lever being removed from the screw threadedmembers, and means connecting the lever and one of said screw threadedmembers said means being pivotally connected to one of the screwthreaded members, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a wind shield, the combination of a movable portion, holding orbracing means including two coacting relatively adjustable membersassociated respectively with the movable shield portion and the body towhich the shield is applied, locking means including a movable memberoperable upon its movement in one direction to lock the members of thebracing or holding means together, and operating means connected to themovable member of the locking means, the operating means including twoenacting screw threaded powertransmitting parts, one oil said partsbeing a nut, a handle lever, and means connecting the handle lever andthe nut for giving rotatable movement to the nut, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

3. In a wind shield, the combination of a movable portion, holding orbracing means including two coacting relatively adj ustable members, oneof which is pivotally connected to the movable portion of the shield andthe other of which is pivoted to the body to which the shield isapplied, locking means adapted to lock the two members oi the holdingmeans in various fixed relations to one another, and operating means forthe locking means, the operating means includ ing screw threaded powertransmitting members, a handle lever, one of said threaded members beingmovable relatively to the other for operating the locking means, andmeans connecting the handle lever and the last-mentioned screw threadedmember, said screw threaded member being arranged to move about an axisarranged at an angle to the axis of the pivotal connection between saidmovable shield portion and the member of the holding or bracing meanspivotally connected to said movable portion, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

at. In a wind shield, the combination of a movable portion, holding orbracing means including two co cting relatively adjustable members, onemember being pivoted to said portion of the shield and the other beingdesigned to be pivoted to the body to which the shield is applied,locking means adapted to hold said members in any adjusted position, andoperating means connected to the locking means including screw-threadedpowertransmittingmembers located near the pivot connecting the holdingmeans and the movable portion of the shield, a handle lever removed fromsuch pivot, and means connecting the handle lever and one of the screwthreaded members, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. In a wind shield, the combination of a hinged shield portion, bracingmeans including two coacting relatively adjustable members, one memberbeing pivoted to the hinged portion of the wind shield eccentric to theaxis thereof, and the other member being pivotally connected to the bodyto which the shield is applied, locking means for holding said membersin any adjusted position, and operating means connected to the lockingmeans and including screw threaded power-transmitting members locatednear the pivot connecting the bracing means and said movable shieldportion, a. handle lever located near the hinge of the movable por tionof the shield, and means connecting the handle lever and one of thescrew threaded members, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

(5. In a wind shield, the combination of a hinged shield portion,holding or bracing means arranged at opposite sides of the shieldportion, each bracing means comprising two coacting relativelyadjustable members, one member being pivoted to the movable portion ofthe shield eccentric to the aXis thereof, and the other member beingdesigned to be pivoted to the body to which the shield is applied,locking means for each of the bracing means including a movable part,and operating means for such part comprising screw threadedpower-transmit ting members, a handle lever at each side of the vehicle,means connecting each handle lever and one of the screw threaded membersof the corresponding locking means, and means connecting the handlelevers so that each handle lever when moved in one direction operatesthe movable screw threaded parts of both locking means, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

RAPHAEL NETTER.

lVitnesses FRANK v. BRIESEN, WILLIAM R. SGHULZ.

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